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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Topeka, KS

August 19, 2025Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2025, 1:57 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 2025, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2025, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

County Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2025-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2025-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-312 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 12:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDickinson, Morris44 min
Aug 19, 12:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPGeary33 min
Aug 19, 1:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris43 min
Aug 19, 1:15 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPClay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley3 hr
Aug 19, 1:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPGeary51 min
Aug 19, 1:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa52 min
Aug 19, 2:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa29 min
Aug 19, 2:39 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPOttawa3 hr
Aug 19, 3:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa30 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.